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Treasurer Jim Chalmers has rejected as “laughable” criticism he has turned his back on the Hawke-Keating reform era in his blueprint for “values-based capitalism”.

Anthony Albanese has made progress during his political honeymoon, but in 2023 he will have to show Australians why he was worth their vote.

Apathy is still our enemy. But the appeal we've been making hasn't energised people into joining.

Ross Garnaut is a big beast in the Australian climate policy world, and a Labor favourite since his days as economic adviser to Bob Hawke. His 2008 Climate Change Review shifted the dial on policy, encouraging the Rudd and Gillard governments to pursue carbon pricing laws. He fell out of…

Three prime ministers – Boris Johnson, Liz Truss and, now, Rishi Sunak – in less than two months. The leadership tumult in the cradle of parliamentary democracy, Westminster, is a source of macabre fascination.

The sobriety of Budget 2022 reveals much about the political evolution of Anthony Albanese, Matthew Franklin writes.

If New Zealand is happy to pack off a sitting prime minister to Antarctica, why is Australia cold on the idea?

Labor’s 2022 budget is about a new government starting as it means to continue, then crossing its fingers and hoping continuing like that is actually possible

A volatile global economy looms as Jim Chalmers assembles the Albanese government’s inaugural budget, where he will be judged on delivering on election promises while exercising restraint